Bailing hay in the evening sun, late evening sun to be precise, as it was close to 9pm. Not that remarkable an image normally (and shooting into the sun wasn't great) but I made the effort to capture what may be the last harvest off these fields. As the fields lie behind the house. This month the landowner has submitted for planning permission to build 75 homes on this and another field. These fields are not in the approved housing envelope for Weston super Mare, but they are on a plan of potential land for development created in 2014 (very quietly). Already before anything formal has arisen the neighbourhood is up in arms. I loathe seeing fields built on, but also understand that with the local authority being told they have to build 25,000 houses in 20 years, the pressure is on. It's not Nimbyism to say these fields are not in the right place to be built on. More problems than solutions to their building. But we'll see, But I wonder how many more times will I hear the hum of machinery, or the lowing of cattle on these fields on a summers evening?
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